About
- CBT techniques
- Client-Centered work
- Mindfulness skills
About Edna
Edna Sanders is an LCSW with 14 years of clinical experience and holds LCSW credentials in Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia. She focuses on common concerns adults bring from home life - stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting strains. Her work also covers relationship and family issues as individual concerns, plus areas like grief, addiction, sleep problems, and career stress.
Edna uses straightforward conversation to help people name what is happening and decide what to try next. She draws on Client-Centered methods to follow a person's pace and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at patterns of thought and behavior. Mindfulness techniques and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy are woven in to build practical coping skills.
Clients can expect a practical style that balances emotional checking-in with concrete skill building. Sessions often include talking through recent situations, trying a different way to respond, and practicing short exercises between meetings. She pays attention to how cultural background and life roles affect everyday stressors.
Her experience includes support for people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, and multicultural issues. She also lists work with veteran and armed forces issues, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress among her focus areas.
Edna notes that people sometimes come wanting help with parenting strains, relationship tension, or with rebuilding confidence after loss. She encourages a clear plan for small, practical steps so progress is easier to notice and maintain.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Edna uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what feels most important to the person and to set a pace that fits their comfort level. This approach means conversations focus on the client's concerns and values, helping them decide which areas to address first.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thought and behavior patterns that reinforce distress. CBT involves small experiments and practical tools to change how someone responds to stressful situations, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with the client to pick or combine methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as work continues so methods can be adjusted if something is not helping.
Confirm the specific session formats before scheduling because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy home life, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins on a day when a longer visit is hard to manage. Some approaches, like brief CBT exercises or mindfulness practices, adapt well to shorter or screen-based sessions and can be practiced between meetings.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
14+ years
Listed in
Indiana, New Jersey, Virginia, Mississippi
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, relationship and family concerns, and related issues such as sleep, grief, and addictions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and conversational, combining Client-Centered listening with CBT and mindfulness exercises to build day-to-day coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience as a licensed social worker in multiple states.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She holds the LCSW credential in Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia and is based in Indiana.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she provide?
Please confirm current session format options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are offered.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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